The Production of (Im-)Mobility: The Visa as Border Infrastructure (B01)

• Subject Area: Public Law
• Term: since 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 501120656

The project analyses the functioning of the visa in German law, understood as an infrastructure of production of (im-)mobility in the form of a preventive management of access and residence of foreign nationals. The study consists, on the one hand, of an examination of the legal and visa-related history from 1867 to 1990, a period during which visa requirements and the character of the visa repeatedly changed. On the other hand, the project includes a legal-sociological study of the intended and achieved steering effects of the legal regulations since the Aliens Act 1990.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1604: Production of Migration
• Applicant Institution: Universität Osnabrück
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Thomas Groß